>>Hi,
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>>What is the fastest (or an efficient) method to find out if a dataset (not strongly typed) has a column; by name. For example; I have a dataset MyDataSet (created by loading an XML file) and I want to find out if the dataset has column MyColumn.
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>>TIA
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>You can try Table.Columns.Contains(columnnameToTest), which returns a Boolean.
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>Here's an example....the first one returns true, the second one false
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>DataTable dt = new DataTable();
>dt.Columns.Add("Column1", typeof(System.String));
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>MessageBox.Show( dt.Columns.Contains("Column1").ToString());
>MessageBox.Show(dt.Columns.Contains("Column2").ToString());
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Thank you. I will try this approach too.
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